Archive for September, 2008
Windows on OLPC XOs Peru – The conversation heats up!
The latest article on the OLPC Windows XP pilot to take place in Peru over at OLPCNews has attracted a good conversation to it. The comments generally split between Pro-Windows people seeking more functionality for “Real World” applications and those who are afraid Microsoft’s entrance into the project will close some of the openness of [...]
Chris Vrenna on Alice
I’ve been digging trough the BuzzMoo.com archives and came up with my 2003 interview with Chris Vrenna, the man responsible for soundtrack to American McGee’s Alice and a lot of Nine Inch Nail’s drumming. I got the chance to ask him about the Alice soundtrack and computer game music in general… “…Up till now, it [...]
Bill Bailey – Tinselworm
So we picked up tickets to Bill Bailey‘s Australian tour many many months ago and saw him this weekend. In fact I’d forgotten about the show until just the day before (the specific date, that is. Hard to keep Bailey out of your head entirely..!).It turns out “Row EE” is actually “The front row” which [...]
Peru OLPC to trial Windows
Cnet is reporting today that “Microsoft and the One Laptop Per Child project announced Monday that Peru will be the first country to try out XO laptops running Microsoft Windows as part of a nine-month pilot program.” Which comes as a bit of a surprise to me, as I haven’t read anywhere that Windows runs [...]
HP OS to Counter Vista?
Geek News Central is musing over HP’s rumored plan to create an operating system for it’s own machines, open source flavour (to some degree). I haven’t actually installed or even really used much Vista at all, but it sounds like the experience is enough to make one of the worlds largest hardware vendors look elsewhere. [...]
more geekery
I don’t think it’s coincidence two of the biggest StarWars fans to ever have been born into this galaxy both hang out at Elroy Online. Join the thought provoking and steadily deepening StarWars conversation over at Elroy’s review of Robot Chicken: StarWars DVD. It’s likely The Force is involved somehow (The Unifying kind, not the dark/light dichotomy). And [...]
Google Invests In Broadband For Poorer Countries
Already Slashdotted is Google’s announcement of $750m towards broadband infrastructure in Africa. Headed up by 03b, the project will involve launching over a dozen satellites to provide broadband capacity of African nations along with setting physical backbones and WiMax infrastructure. A customer grab or a purely philanthropic venture? Well, don’t forget Google has put a [...]
iPod timeline
If you’ve been coming here for a while you know that I’ve been through a lot of iPod. In fact it was going to be a photo feature here at some point (still may) because the array of devices in chronological order is pretty impressive. With Apple’s new line of iPods just out, Gizmodo has [...]
OLPC XOs reach Rwanda
500 donated XOs have been distributed to Rwandan school children this week, reports AllAfrica.com. “The Minister of Primary and Secondary Education, Theoneste Mutsindashyaka, thanked President Paul Kagame for liaising with his friend Nicolae Negroponte, the proprietor of OLPC project, who offered Rwanda’s education sector the Laptops. “This is a very remarkable day in the records [...]
OBAMA V. O’REILLY
Obama holds his own against every single shot O’Reilly fires at him. If not Ron Paul, then Obama I say!
Pop Montage
RnB meets Garritan Personal Orchestra (because I’ve got it running again) but doesn’t quite make it to the finish line…so, for posterity; BuzzMoo – Pop Montage 1.8mb MP3 @ 128kpbs
Tumbleweed Vortex
Seems I don’t have to go to Tornado Alley for fun after all!
Challenging the notion of competition
Since beginning my OLPC adventure I’ve been staying on top of the chatter as best I can. After a few weeks of watching carefully, I’m concerned about some of the language used to relate to the project and projects like it. The web has taken a positive tone to the social goals of low cost [...]
OLPC G1G1 returns
Given the success of the G1G1 (Give Get One) it was only a matter of time till they ran something similar again. This time around addressing the supply/demand issue (G1G1 suffered serious waiting times/delivery issues because of supply chain problems. “Although the first iteration of the ‘G1G1’ program was extremely successful and sold more then [...]
